Hi, On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 12:30, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:46 AM, svetlana <svetl...@fastmail.com.au> wrote: > > John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > > > >> i.e. specifically asking > >> previously highly productive volunteers who have stopped contributing > >> whether they feel the increase in funds has not resulted in their work > >> being adequately supported? > > > > Thanks for your great wording, John. > > > > I belong to this category (somewhat). I stopped contributing because I felt > > that my work is not adequately supported. I felt the need to develop some > > software. I have rather limited free time however, and I've been in the > > "not highly productive on-wiki" phase for over 3 years now. > > > > Incidentally, one of the entities that doesn't adequately support my work > > is my local chapter. It had been extremely hostile toward Wikimedia > > movement and after learning how it works I had no motivation to continue > > working with Wikimedia projects. How poorly the Wikimedia Foundation itself > > works wasn't the biggest obstacle (I found it mildly approachable and was > > (and am!) a tiny bit happy with it). > > Have you looked into the funding situation of your local chapter? > Does it have large cash reserves and large predicable revenue flows? > > -- > John Vandenberg
Thanks for the suggestion, but there is not a problem with how it is funded. It organizes events which miss the point. I would be happy to be more specific, but I will do so at a later point, not here and not now; what I was saying was only that *if* we were to do such survey, we would need to *also* ask people how happy they are with their Chapters activities and adequate support from them. The funding banner is for them all, not just WMF, after all. -- svetlana _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
